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UK Parliament - Makerfield
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> United Kingdom > England > North West > North West > Makerfield
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| Office | Parliament |
| Honorific | Member of Parliament - Abbr: MP |
| Type | General Election |
| Filing Deadline | April 19, 2005 - 12:00pm Central |
| Polls Open | May 05, 2005 - 01:00am Central |
| Polls Close | May 05, 2005 - 05:00pm Central |
| Term Start | May 17, 2005 - 12:00pm |
| Term End | May 17, 2010 - 11:00am |
| Contributor | Wishful Thinking |
| Last Modified | Wishful Thinking June 16, 2005 11:09pm |
| Data Sources | [Link] |
| Description |
Makerfield, and its predecessor seat, Ince, has always been Labour. It is one of a trio of super-safe Labour parliamentary seats in the strip of land between Manchester and Liverpool (along with Leigh and Wigan). It has been represented since 1987 by Labour Party Chairman Ian McCartney whose majority is currently 17,750 or 50.9%. The constituency includes small towns to the south and west of Wigan - Abram, Ashton-in-Makerfield and Orrell. This is rugby and former coal mining country. But with the decline of the mines, new industries have established themselves. The greatest proportion of the working population is employed in skilled manual occupations, though 21.5% work in retail and wholesale. Unemployment is around the national average, diversification having managed to keep it untypically low for an area with this sort of industrial history. The population here is overwhelmingly white, at 99%, and 50.7% of the housing is semi-detached.
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